When I asked a local in Brașov to explain the difference between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, he didn’t quote scripture or mention rituals. He smiled and said simply, “We didn’t have crusades, the Inquisition, or witch trials.” It was such an abrupt answer that I have remembered it ever since. I had expected something about the pope, perhaps, or icons, saints, liturgy, or the theological dispute over the filioque. Instead, he answered a question about religion with history. Mor